Religious Caveman Bryan Fischer Fantasizes About Spankings From God

American Family Association caveman Bryan Fischer spends a lot of time thinking about important subjects like spanking. Spanking by God, not by Bryan, of course. He never spanks his kids, except when he does, because they deserved it.

Bryan, you shameless slut! Yearning for spankings! And bears? Do you like bears in leather, Mr. Fischer? And what’s this about going out and about in drag? Are you trying to tell us something, Mr. Fischer?

“One human being is worth more than an infinite number of grizzly bears,” Fischer writes. “Another way to put it is that there is no number of live grizzlies worth one dead human being. If it’s a choice between grizzlies and humans, the grizzlies have to go. And it’s time.”

a wingnut blogger once told me that “we conservatives aren’t against ecology - we need to breathe clean air just as much as anybody else. but if it comes down to a choice between bambi and jobs, bambi must die!”

Bryan, you shameless slut! Yearning for spankings! And bears? Do you like bears in leather, Mr. Fischer? And what’s this about going out and about in drag? Are you trying to tell us something, Mr. Fischer?

Come out of the closet, Mr. Fischer.

Furries… he had one bad experience with a furry, and thereafter he’s decided to wipe out the species.

Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money. — on being asked by Tipper Gore if there was anything on the TV he _didn’t_ allow his kids to watch …

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“One human being is worth more than an infinite number of grizzly bears,” Fischer writes. “Another way to put it is that there is no number of live grizzlies worth one dead human being. If it’s a choice between grizzlies and humans, the grizzlies have to go. And it’s time.”

a wingnut blogger once told me that “we conservatives aren’t against ecology - we need to breathe clean air just as much as anybody else. but if it comes down to a choice between bambi and jobs, bambi must die!”

“One human being is worth more than an infinite number of grizzly bears,” Fischer writes. “Another way to put it is that there is no number of live grizzlies worth one dead human being. If it’s a choice between grizzlies and humans, the grizzlies have to go. And it’s time.”

a wingnut blogger once told me that “we conservatives aren’t against ecology - we need to breathe clean air just as much as anybody else. but if it comes down to a choice between bambi and jobs, bambi must die!”

i am reserving this for the title of a book

If Dominionists like Fischer want to eradicate bears (for whatever twisted, warped reasons), think of the insight that gives to what he’d do to his fellow humans that aren’t down with what he wants to do.

It’s a rather absurd concept on many levels. What are seen as natural disasters by humans are also part of the complexity of nature. Earthquakes, the ring of fire. The formation of geological features. Hurricanes, while very hurtful to humans are a part of the climate balance. In essence, we evolved alongside and survived because of many of these catastrophic natural events.

If Dominionists like Fischer want to eradicate bears (for whatever twisted, warped reasons), think of the insight that gives to what he’d do to his fellow humans that aren’t down with what he wants to do.

I see that quote and imagine replacing “grizzly bears” with “assault rifles”.

I only just now listened to the white haired oracle. I am not surprised but I have to make the obvious observation that he equates “spanking” kids with mass murder and destruction (by a loving god).

There was a smiling woman in Florida the last day or two who barely survived an airplane crashing into and destroying her home. She was so happy to to explain, in front of her destroyed home, that this was a proof of God’s existens. Not once did she mention that her god killed the three people in that plane in order to bring her the message.

I only just now listened to the white haired oracle. I am not surprised but I have to make the obvious observation that he equates “spanking” kids with mass murder and destruction (by a loving god).

There was a smiling woman in Florida the last day or two who barely survived an airplane crashing into and destroying her home. She was so happy to to explain, in front of her destroyed home, that this was a proof of God’s existens. Not once did she mention that her god killed the three people in that plane in order to bring her the message.

It’s a rather absurd concept on many levels. What are seen as natural disasters by humans are also part of the complexity of nature. Earthquakes, the ring of fire. The formation of geological features. Hurricanes, while very hurtful to humans are a part of the climate balance. In essence, we evolved alongside and survived because of many of these catastrophic natural events.

Volcanic eruptions are probably the best terrestrial example.

I wonder what Fischer would make of supernovas if anyone could get it through his incredibly thick skull that the existence of Earth with a decent supply of heavy elements is strong evidence that our solar system formed from the remnants of a supernova.

I wonder what Fischer would make of supernovas if anyone could get it through his incredibly thick skull that the existence of Earth with a decent supply of heavy elements is strong evidence that our solar system formed from the remnants of a supernova.

Given they won’t accept world > 6000 years old, much less tectonic plates, what makes you think that the time scales for that are even in the mildest ways going to be accepted as true?

I only just now listened to the white haired oracle. I am not surprised but I have to make the obvious observation that he equates “spanking” kids with mass murder and destruction (by a loving god).

There was a smiling woman in Florida the last day or two who barely survived an airplane crashing into and destroying her home. She was so happy to to explain, in front of her destroyed home, that this was a proof of God’s existens. Not once did she mention that her god killed the three people in that plane in order to bring her the message.

Sick.

One cannot know what God intends for others, and one can thank God for one’s own survival without being callous towards those who died.

If you’re going to give God credit for the good stuff, you’ve got to be consistent and recognize when he’s fucked you over:

It wasn’t his own hands or the Pittsburgh secondary Sunday that foiled Buffalo Bills wide receiver Steve Johnson from hauling in what should have been the game-winning TD catch in the end zone.

It was God.

“I PRAISE YOU 24/7!!!!!!” the 24-year-old tweeted from his iPad at around 5:15 Sunday after the Steelers’ 19-16 overtime victory. “AND THIS HOW YOU DO ME!!!!! YOU EXPECT ME TO LEARN FROM THIS??? HOW???!!! ILL NEVER FORGET THIS!! EVER!!! THX THO…”

If you’re going to give God credit for the good stuff, you’ve got to be consistent and recognize when he’s fucked you over:

The Tebow effect. Possibly the one thing that could significantly further lower the collective intelligence and wisdom of the US would be a new “Gospel of Football” that combines Calvinism, the prosperity gospel and football idolatry.

The next L. Ron Hubbard could probably make some serious $$$ with this formula.

The internet is a bad thing. There used to be an IQ barrier to operating a typewriter, or writing with a pen, and addressing envelopes.

That’s not the ‘bad’ IMO. The real problem is that before the Internet it was hard for crazies to gain a large audience because electronic and print media outlets featured gatekeepers who were almost always sane people and screened out the crazies. The Internet connected previously isolated nutcases and gave them a megaphone.

What just doesn’t square are the conservative Christian notions that people are solely responsible for their own successes/failures, and that everything is part of God’s plan. It’s like they can’t figure out what to worship, a fickle deity or their own egos.

What just doesn’t square are the conservative Christian notions that people are solely responsible for their own successes/failures, and that everything is part of God’s plan. It’s like they can’t figure out what to worship, a fickle deity or their own egos.

Logic is of the debbil. Repent now or spend eternity hip-deep in molten lead.

That’s not the ‘bad’ IMO. The real problem is that before the Internet it was hard for crazies to gain a large audience because electronic and print media outlets featured gatekeepers who were almost always sane people and screened out the crazies. The Internet connected previously isolated nutcases and gave them a megaphone.

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.

Matthew 6:5

This is what gets me about people like Tebow. They’re marketing what should be a private thing, the entire purpose of the exercise is to create a spectacle. Smacks of peacocking insincerity.

No, it isn’t. Because being a crank doesn’t mean you’re stupid, in fact some cranks are a good bit smarter than the average person. But it used to be that what you mailed in asking for a book deal or airtime would be ignored in you were a nutcase, and thus nuts were largely kept out of mass media. Nowadays the net has given nuts their own media outlets, places where the crazies are the gatekeepers.

I don’t really hate Tebow but I do hate being told I have to like him because he’s a Christian and a good guy. If Tebow had the same character but was a Dawkins style Atheist, would he get all the love he did? I think not. That’s not a slight on Tebow so much as it is on people who think good and Christian are inherently connected. There are indeed good Christians but there are also good Atheists, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, etc and bad of each too. Plus I have to admit I have a huge problem with Tebow’s father speaking so ignorantly of the Philippines as he did in the SI article I read when TT was still at UF claiming that most of the people of that nation don’t know Jesus Christ. I took that as a very anti Catholic statement considering that most of that nation is Catholic.

I don’t really hate Tebow but I do hate being told I have to like him because he’s a Christian and a good guy. If Tebow had the same character but was a Dawkins style Atheist, would he get all the love he did? I think not. That’s not a slight on Tebow so much as it is on people who think good and Christian are inherently connected. There are indeed good Christians but there are also good Atheists, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, etc and bad of each too. Plus I have to admit I have a huge problem with Tebow’s father speaking so ignorantly of the Philippines as he did in the SI article I read when TT was still at UF claiming that most of the people of that nation don’t know Jesus Christ. I took that as a very anti Catholic statement considering that most of that nation is Catholic.

Good points. I’d like to see a more widespread appreciation of the point that religion (or lack thereof) and morality (or lack thereof) have very little to do with each other.

Like suicide bombers. They got their reward after their sacrifice. Where have I heard that before?

Not just suicide bombers. It’s easier to be willing to face death doing a cause which you think is Godly thus putting you on the right sides of God knowing that if you die it will all be well in the afterlife. At least that’s a theory behind “there are no atheists in foxhole.” You die. That’s it. In reality though most people don’t go into war thinking “I don’t care if I die because I’m going to heaven.”

Good points. I’d like to see a more widespread appreciation of the point that religion (or lack thereof) and morality (or lack thereof) have very little to do with each other.

Thanks. Really, I mean it’s just annoying being told if you say I don’t like Tebow- “Oh you must hate religion and Christians.” Hell, I’m a big Steelers fan. One of our biggest stars, Troy Polamalu is a devoutly Christian guy too but he’s not as well known for it as Tebow is. I think at one point I had a problem with Tebow but I’ve realized it’s more with his diehard fans than the man himself who I will admit seems to be a nice enough guy and one I will add from a football fan’s pov got the raw end of a deal in New York this year. But back to my broader point, yeah, there are a lot of good people out there who just happen to be nonreligious. Religious or non religious really shouldn’t be how you’re judged as a person. It should be what you actually do. IF you believe in God and Scripture and do terrible things, you suck. IF you don’t and do equally wonderful things, you’re awesome.

By the way, it’s bizarre to say since we’ve come a long way as a society but I think Kareem Abdul-Jabbar would face more shit being a converted Muslim now than he did then. Can’t say that for sure since I wasn’t born when KAJ converted but knowing today’s hostility to Muslims, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to suggest that. Anyhow, much love for KAJ. Great basketball player but he seems to an even better guy.

Thanks. Really, I mean it’s just annoying being told if you say I don’t like Tebow- “Oh you must hate religion and Christians.” Hell, I’m a big Steelers fan. One of our biggest stars, Troy Polamalu is a devoutly Christian guy too but he’s not as well known for it as Tebow is. I think at one point I had a problem with Tebow but I’ve realized it’s more with his diehard fans than the man himself who I will admit seems to be a nice enough guy and one I will add from a football fan’s pov got the raw end of a deal in New York this year. But back to my broader point, yeah, there are a lot of good people out there who just happen to be nonreligious. Religious or non religious really shouldn’t be how you’re judged as a person. It should be what you actually do. IF you believe in God and Scripture and do terrible things, you suck. IF you don’t and do equally wonderful things, you’re awesome.

My best friend actually suggested that the Bears should get Tebow as their second-line QB and use him for trick and short-yardage plays. I thought the idea had merit, but I do want to run it by you folks. What do you think Tebow’s proper role on an NFL team should be?

My best friend actually suggested that the Bears should get Tebow as their second-line QB and use him for trick and short-yardage plays. I thought the idea had merit, but I do want to run it by you folks. What do you think Tebow’s proper role on an NFL team should be?

Honestly, I don’t know. Wouldn’t kill me if the Steelers got him because they are going to need a second string QB but I prefer more conventional QBs. I have to admit in a row rooting for Tebow sometimes in a way because he’s a lefty and since lefty QBs rarely succeed in the NFL, I do like seeing them succeed. Felt similarly about Vick before I found out he was engaged in dog-fighting.

My best friend actually suggested that the Bears should get Tebow as their second-line QB and use him for trick and short-yardage plays. I thought the idea had merit, but I do want to run it by you folks. What do you think Tebow’s proper role on an NFL team should be?

Honestly, I don’t know. Wouldn’t kill me if the Steelers got him because they are going to need a second string QB but I prefer more conventional QBs. I have to admit in a row rooting for Tebow sometimes in a way because he’s a lefty and since lefty QBs rarely succeed in the NFL, I do like seeing them succeed. Felt similarly about Vick before I found out he was engaged in dog-fighting.

I’m a southpaw myself and I root for left-handers for the same reason. I never rooted for Michael Vick, though, because it was too much fun watching the Bears defense pulverize him whenever the team he was on played Chicago. Scrambling QBs don’t work very well against first-rate linebackers.

I’m a southpaw myself and I root for left-handers for the same reason. I never rooted for Michael Vick, though, because it was too much fun watching the Bears defense pulverize him whenever the team he was on played Chicago. Scrambling QBs don’t work very well against first-rate linebackers.

Yeah, well remember I’m an AFC team fan and he’s from my home state. He always gave the Steelers trouble though. I still remember him having a career like game against them in 2006. Just an awful game. My ideal type of QB though if I have one is an Elway type. Someone with a good arm, pocket presence, but can run fi he needs to.

My best friend actually suggested that the Bears should get Tebow as their second-line QB and use him for trick and short-yardage plays. I thought the idea had merit, but I do want to run it by you folks. What do you think Tebow’s proper role on an NFL team should be?

Well I think Tebow has just a couple years left..Mainly as a 2nd stringer nothing more. What do you think of the Brett Musberger scandal?

FB’s need to make a comeback. Power running for the win. Grew up watching Bettis do his thing. I was always the power back in backyard football. I was never fast but I was a bruiser. Loved using my size to my advantage.

Yeah, well remember I’m an AFC team fan and he’s from my home state. He always gave the Steelers trouble though. I still remember him having a career like game against them in 2006. Just an awful game. My ideal type of QB though if I have one is an Elway type. Someone with a good arm, pocket presence, but can run fi he needs to.

Well I think Tebow has just a couple years left..Mainly as a 2nd stringer nothing more. What do you think of the Brett Musberger scandal?

I don’t know Hoops. I think he has more than a couple years left. He hasn’t shown any injury proneness or happiness with being a second stringer. He really handled the way Ryan handled him with the Jets better than most athletes would. I mean they give up two draft picks for him and Ryan seldom uses him. Rex is a pigheaded fool.

FB’s need to make a comeback. Power running for the win. Grew up watching Bettis do his thing. I was always the power back in backyard football. I was never fast but I was a bruiser. Loved using my size to my advantage.

The Jets tried him as a short yardage guy, but he wasn’t that good at it. But I can see him as a fullback because he does have a pretty good burst of speed. He could easily learn to catch out of the backfield. Blocking might be a problem though.
He is done as a QB, I don’t see anyone giving him a shot unless as a public relations thing.

The Jets tried him as a short yardage guy, but he wasn’t that good at it. But I can see him as a fullback because he does have a pretty good burst of speed. He could easily learn to catch out of the backfield. Blocking might be a problem though.
He is done as a QB, I don’t see anyone giving him a shot unless as a public relations thing.

Jaguars would fit the PR bill. I think the FB think would be cool. Could catch a team by surprise. When the Steelers played the Jets this year, I only saw Tebow come in on a couple of Wildcat formations.

I don’t know Hoops. I think he has more than a couple years left. He hasn’t shown any injury proneness or happiness with being a second stringer. He really handled the way Ryan handled him with the Jets better than most athletes would. I mean they give up two draft picks for him and Ryan seldom uses him. Rex is a pigheaded fool.

Tebow quit on the team. Ryan’s judgement may have been wrong in the beginning, but not in the end.

Well I think Tebow has just a couple years left..Mainly as a 2nd stringer nothing more. What do you think of the Brett Musberger scandal?

I regard it as a nontroversy. At most Musberger went a bit overboard, but he didn’t say anything crude or lewd. It shouldn’t be considered bad if a man waxes effusive over a beautiful woman every once in a while, as long as he doesn’t act in vulgar manner, which Brett Musburger did not do.

I don’t know Hoops. I think he has more than a couple years left. He hasn’t shown any injury proneness or happiness with being a second stringer. He really handled the way Ryan handled him with the Jets better than most athletes would. I mean they give up two draft picks for him and Ryan seldom uses him. Rex is a pigheaded fool.

Jets are clueless.. The problem Tebow has with hitching onto the other 30 teams is that most teams want a backup that can step up and run their offense.
Tebow needs his own spread college sets to be successful and has shown an inability to run complex offenses in the NFL.

believe me, the less you know about the jets, the better off you are
I’m stuck with them

I was in New York the year they got Favre. That was interesting. I do hope one of the Jets, Dolphins, or Bills can be competitive. Sick of the Pats having a cakewalk to the division every year. Jealously I know but hey that’s allowed.

I was in New York the year they got Favre. That was interesting. I do hope one of the Jets, Dolphins, or Bills can be competitive. Sick of the Pats having a cakewalk to the division every year. Jealously I know but hey that’s allowed.

He only quit after being systematically denied any chance to prove his value. After a while you have to accept that you’re not going to get the chance you need and look into how you can go elsewhere.

No
He didn’t play because he sucked, he cannot pass at all

he whined after he didn’t get a start coming off 2 weeks on the injury list, then told them he didn’t want to play in the last game, one they actually had a chance to win.
They had to put the only decent receiver that they have in to run the wildcat….and he was much better

Colts fan..Brandy has broken our hearts..Please Lawd, let Manning slay them this year and make the team as irrelevant as Log Cabin Repugs

At least you guys have beaten him in a AFC Championship. Steelers lost twice to them. I mean granted one year we had Kordell Stewart at the helm and the other a rookie Roethlisberger but they were both home losses too.

he whined after he didn’t get a start coming off 2 weeks on the injury list, then told them he didn’t want to play in the last game, one they actually had a chance to win.
They had to put the only decent receiver that they have in to run the wildcat….and he was much better

By the way, it’s bizarre to say since we’ve come a long way as a society but I think Kareem Abdul-Jabbar would face more shit being a converted Muslim now than he did then. Can’t say that for sure since I wasn’t born when KAJ converted but knowing today’s hostility to Muslims, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to suggest that. Anyhow, much love for KAJ. Great basketball player but he seems to an even better guy.

I never had a real college basketball team until I went to Mason. Always liked Dean Smith though dating from a Rick Reilly article I read on him. But I can see why people would hate UNC.

I think part of it (and also my dislike for Notre Dame) is how they sucked away local talent into their program. One reason some of the regional schools remained 2nd-rate in terms of athletics. Though at this point basketball has almost reached the level of corruption enjoyed by college football. Essentially acting as a “free” minor league for the professional level.

A redeeming feature is that they have an actual championship tournament that is fun to watch as compared to the travesty that is the bowl and BCS system. (Also doesn’t help that my interactions with the college football players at university were almost universally negative while the college basketball players I met were almost universally fairly cool and not stuck-up.)

Remember, he’s a Jets fan so he probably keeps up with the team via blogs, beat writers, etc that you and I as fans of other teams may not read. I’m surprised to hear it too because it doesn’t sound like what I’ve heard about Tebow but I trust him.

Colts fan..Brandy has broken our hearts..Please Lawd, let Manning slay them this year and make the team as irrelevant as Log Cabin Repugs

If its Broncos-Patriots in the AFC Championship Game, then its liable to be an all-time classic. But I’d give the edge to Denver. New England has played Peyton Manning (and his brother) too many times, and the more times you play Payton Manning the better he gets when facing you. Denver will have a number of offensive plays designed by Manning just to take advantage of Patriot weaknesses.

Remember, he’s a Jets fan so he probably keeps up with the team via blogs, beat writers, etc that you and I as fans of other teams may not read. I’m surprised to hear it too because it doesn’t sound like what I’ve heard about Tebow but I trust him.

And Rex Ryan can probably try any Christian’s patience to the breaking point.
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I think part of it (and also my dislike for Notre Dame) is how they sucked away local talent into their program. One reason some of the regional schools remained 2nd-rate in terms of athletics. Though at this point basketball has almost reached the level of corruption enjoyed by college football. Essentially acting as a “free” minor league for the professional level.

A redeeming feature is that they have an actual championship tournament that is fun to watch as compared to the travesty that is the bowl and BCS system. (Also doesn’t help that my interactions with the college football players at university were almost universally negative while the college basketball players I met were almost universally fairly cool and not stuck-up.)

Yeah totally feel ya about college basketball. Reminds me, when I was a reporter at Mason’s newspaper, one of my great thrills was being able to interview the last guy who came in after the school made the Final Four. And the best roommate I ever had been a freshman that year so he had some great stories about that season.

Post and other NY media was spinning that story.. Back to the ESPN apology for Brett Musberger. This last Decade ESPN has been flooded with sexual discrimination suits..It’s better than a ’ all my days’ soap opera.
Years ago I read when you walk into the ESPN studios you could almost smell the testosterone in the air.

Post and other NY media was spinning that story.. Back to the ESPN apology for Brett Musberger. This last Decade ESPN has been flooded with sexual discrimination suits..It’s better than a ’ all my days’ soap opera.
Years ago I read when you walk into the ESPN studios you could almost smell the testosterone in the air.

There’s supposed to be a pretty good book on ESPN’s early years. Really does seem like it was almost a real life version of Anchorman. All the more funny seeing Will Farrell as Ron Burgundy “audition” for Sportscenter and telling them that a network totally devoted to sports would never last.

Have any teams other than Buffalo and KC hired new head coaches yet by the way? It’s always interesting for me to watch where the head coaches go and to try to predict which one will be on the chopping block within the next few years or which one will be the next big success. Can tell you this much, I had no idea who Sean Payton was after 2005. Didn’t know who Mike Tomlin was when the Steelers hired him either.

Yeah totally feel ya about college basketball. Reminds me, when I was a reporter at Mason’s newspaper, one of my great thrills was being able to interview the last guy who came in after the school made the Final Four. And the best roommate I ever had been a freshman that year so he had some great stories about that season.

I played College ball. No big deal. I transferred from a JUCO and got to ride a bench at a 4 year school

Post and other NY media was spinning that story.. Back to the ESPN apology for Brett Musberger. This last Decade ESPN has been flooded with sexual discrimination suits..It’s better than a ’ all my days’ soap opera.
Years ago I read when you walk into the ESPN studios you could almost smell the testosterone in the air.

It still doesn’t make Musberger wrong. I can understand ESPN having problems, but one has to draw the line sometimes. One can admire a beautiful woman without leering, and that was what Musberger was doing.

I played College ball. No big deal. I transferred from a JUCO and got to ride a bench at a 4 year school

Heh, we had one kid who was a walk-on that was pretty legendary with the crowd. I always did like talking to the players. Not sure if they felt the same way talking to us in the press but I always tried to be empathetic. I remember having a good laugh about The Hangover with one of the guys- our best player that year in fact when I was doing a feature.

Heh, we had one kid who was a walk-on that was pretty legendary with the crowd. I always did like talking to the players. Not sure if they felt the same way talking to us in the press but I always tried to be empathetic. I remember having a good laugh about The Hangover with one of the guys- our best player that year in fact when I was doing a feature.

We always gave the 9th and 10th guys on the roster a good cheer if they got in. Generally a walk-on, though one was the son of one of the assistant coaches as I recall.

No, it isn’t. Because being a crank doesn’t mean you’re stupid, in fact some cranks are a good bit smarter than the average person. But it used to be that what you mailed in asking for a book deal or airtime would be ignored in you were a nutcase, and thus nuts were largely kept out of mass media. Nowadays the net has given nuts their own media outlets, places where the crazies are the gatekeepers.

Smarter is, in this case, relative to the issue being discussed. I agree that a well qualified brain surgeon can be an ardent Republican, but you seem to be arguing that the primary difference between then and now (in the internet age) is in the gatekeepers, not in the crowd.

I am saying, simply, (and I thought we agreed) that the internet (along with cable TV) has allowed the morons to easily and lazily find their soul mates whereas before they would simply have languished in limbo where they belonged.

We always gave the 9th and 10th guys on the roster a good cheer if they got in. Generally a walk-on, though one was the son of one of the assistant coaches as I recall.

Yeah this guy was actually the son of a good friend of the head coach’s going way back to I believe their high school or college days. I miss Larranaga at Mason. My last semester was Hewitt’s first year so I don’t really have an opinion of him but Larranaga just was a character. He’s got this thick New York accent and likes to joke around with the reporters. I really hope Miami’s going well for him. While I was disappointed with the move, Fairfax, Va in winter or Miami, Florida. Easy choice and even easier one with the money he was offered.

Heh, we had one kid who was a walk-on that was pretty legendary with the crowd. I always did like talking to the players. Not sure if they felt the same way talking to us in the press but I always tried to be empathetic. I remember having a good laugh about The Hangover with one of the guys- our best player that year in fact when I was doing a feature.

I never had good relations with reporters. They couldn’t print an accurate story for crap. One time the register printed an over the top story that had grandmas sending me post cards thanking me for inspiring them and what a wonderful boy I was…Jeez

Sarah Posner: “…[ Gun Owners of America executive director Larry] Pratt, who has authored an essay entitled, “What Does the Bible Say About Gun Control?”, told me, “When we’re talking about firearms, we’re not really talking about a right but an obligation, as creatures of God, to protect the life that was given them.” “

Yeah this guy was actually the son of a good friend of the head coach’s going way back to I believe their high school or college days. I miss Larranaga at Mason. My last semester was Hewitt’s first year so I don’t really have an opinion of him but Larranaga just was a character. He’s got this thick New York accent and likes to joke around with the reporters. I really hope Miami’s going well for him. While I was disappointed with the move, Fairfax, Va in winter or Miami, Florida. Easy choice and even easier one with the money he was offered.

I was always amused the few years I lived in D.C. (just south of Alexandria actually) how the sports coverage for college basketball in the Washington Post way outdid the coverage the Bullets got. Then again, with Georgetown, GW, Maryland, and Mason to cover that might not be so surprising.

I never had good relations with reporters. They couldn’t print an accurate story for crap. One time the register printed an over the top story that had grandmas sending me post cards thanking me for inspiring them and what a wonderful boy I was…Jeez

I wouldn’t blame you heh if I had been an athlete. I always did try to quote accurately as possible. I really don’t blame athletes who don’t like talking with the press. I’m a pretty reserved guy and I’d probably just want to relax after a long game.

I was always amused the few years I lived in D.C. (just south of Alexandria actually) how the sports coverage for college basketball in the Washington Post way outdid the coverage the Bullets got. Then again, with Georgetown, GW, Maryland, and Mason to cover that might not be so surprising.

We’re just not a NBA area probably because the Wizards are more unsuccessful than not and those college teams are successful whether it was Thompson’s 80’s Hoyas, Gary Williams’s Terps, GW, or Coach L and Mason. I know very few diehard NBA fans. My Dad, the man who put the love of basketball in me took me and my brothers to a few games and he was just bored sick. But when I was living at Mason, I took him and my younger brothers to games and it was just a blast.

I was always amused the few years I lived in D.C. (just south of Alexandria actually) how the sports coverage for college basketball in the Washington Post way outdid the coverage the Bullets got. Then again, with Georgetown, GW, Maryland, and Mason to cover that might not be so surprising.

I suppose in an earlier age having a team called “The Bullets” would simply be an expression of accuracy or speed in the game. Somehow today it sounds crass to me.

In an interview with WorldNetDaily published today, Ted Nugent said that gun owners will channel Rosa Parks and defy any future “anti-American” law prohibiting certain assault weapons. He told WND that measures to reduce gun violence emerge from a “subhuman culture” that is “infesting our government and society.”

You know somehow I doubt Rosa Parks was calling her opponents subhuman. This is where she’s different from you almost immediately Teddy boy. Well that and I think Rosa Parks had enough dignity not to purposely shit her pants ever to get out of doing something.

I suppose in an earlier age having a team called “The Bullets” would simply be an expression of accuracy or speed in the game. Somehow today it sounds crass to me.

Referring to them as such dates me a bit towards when I was living in the area. I think our culture has made it more crass, as compared to it generally being considered a comparison for speed. Superman, after all, was faster than a speeding bullet.

Gov. Jan Brewer said she won’t support any new laws to limit who can carry a gun, even in the wake of the killing of students and teachers in Connecticut.

“I’m a strong supporter of the Second Amendment,” the governor said Tuesday, which also was the second anniversary of the shootings in Tucson at a community event with then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that left six dead and others, including Giffords, permanently injured.

The governor acknowledged that in the face of those tragedies “people are concerned,” but said that should not translate into new restrictions.

Should it be pointed out that Parks allowed herself to be arrested? How many of these punks would be willing to spend a night or two in the clink for their “cause”?

Not just a jail but a Bull Connor jail. That woman was incredibly brave. Ted Nugent? Just a cowardly fuck who gets his kicks calling those who disagree with him subhuman and not realizing he sounds more like a Nazi than those he disagrees with.

Wing too far back for a B-47 I think. That looks more like something like a generic airliner like a 727.

Actually, the B-47’s wing sweep is greater than this. You can see the 4 engine housings. On a 727 top view you would see two side engines in the very tail end of the fuselage including a slight bulge for the engine located on the vertical stabilizer and tail.

News accounts Wednesday of the discovery of ten tons of marijuana inside an abandoned mechanic’s shop in eastern Tijuana had a surprising twist: The drugs had been confiscated before, they stated.

But hours later after reporters were called Tuesday to document the seizure carried by members of the Baja California State Preventive Police—the largest drug seizure so far this year in Tijuana—the agency’s top officer cautioned against jumping to any conclusions.

“It’s not up to us to say whether it had been confiscated or not,” said Marco Antonio Montoya. “That’s up to the PGR,” he said, using the initials of the Mexican attorney general’s office.

Actually, the B-47’s angle of attack is greater than this. You can see the 4 engine housings. On a 727 top view you would see two side engines in the very tail end of the fuselage including a slight bulge for the engine located on the vertical stabilizer and tail.

It still utterly amazes me, looking at pictures of it, that the B-47 ever flew without falling apart.

Actually, the B-47’s wing sweep is greater than this. You can see the 4 engine housings. On a 727 top view you would see two side engines in the very tail end of the fuselage including a slight bulge for the engine located on the vertical stabilizer and tail.

Actually, the B-47’s wing sweep is greater than this. You can see the 4 engine housings. On a 727 top view you would see two side engines in the very tail end of the fuselage including a slight bulge for the engine located on the vertical stabilizer and tail.

Of course this is assuming that it is based on an actual aircraft and not simply an artistic doodle. :)

Actually, the B-47’s wing sweep is greater than this. You can see the 4 engine housings. On a 727 top view you would see two side engines in the very tail end of the fuselage including a slight bulge for the engine located on the vertical stabilizer and tail.

A 727 does not have a third engine on the tail. That’s a DC10 (me pedant).

It’s no news that the U.S. has lower life expectancy and higher infant mortality than most high-income countries. But a magisterial new report says Americans are actually less healthy across their entire life spans than citizens of 16 other wealthy nations.

And the gap is steadily widening.
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The report notes that murder rates involving guns are 20 times higher in the U.S. than in 22 other rich countries.

A 727 does not have a third engine on the tail. That’s a DC10 (me pedant).

727 has an engine that goes from the top of the fuselage and base of the vertical stabilizer at the intake of the engine. It then curves down to the tail of the fuselage centerpoint. It has three (3) engines.

727 has an engine that goes from the top of the fuselage and base of the vertical stabilizer at the intake of the engine. It then curves down to the tail of the fuselage centerpoint. It has three (3) engines.

Feet = sore. Phone = dead. But my time here at CES has been productive, so it’s worth it.

Went over to Caesars Palace tonight to unwind. Dinner and drinks at Sushi Roku, dessert at Trevi. Walked around the shops. I like this city. Wouldn’t want to live here, but I will definitely come back again.

Up for elimination: all eight current tokens including a battleship, iron, racecar, Scottie dog, shoe, thimble, top hat and wheelbarrow. Most tokens were introduced with the first Parker Brothers iteration of the game in 1935, and the Scottie dog and wheelbarrow were added in the early 1950s.

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I’d say get rid of the battleship (which doesn’t really belong in a game about domestic living.)

As rain gently pulses on the window and I took my sleeping pills..It’s time to doze off
This stuff rocks! Every night is a vibrant real life dream.. Like Wizard of Oz dreams and stuff..What will happen tonight?

The Istvaan III Atrocity, also known as the Battle of Istvaan III to Imperial scholars, was the treacherous military campaign conducted by the Chaos-corrupted Warmaster Horus on the rebellious Civilised World of Istvaan III that served both to amass those forces loyal to him without suspicion, and also cull those elements within the ranks of the Traitor Legions whose loyalties he suspected as remaining true to the Emperor of Mankind. The destruction of Istvaan III by virus-bombing and the subsequent internecine battle that followed between the Sons of Horus, Death Guard, Emperor’s Children and World Eaters Traitor Legions and their own Loyalist elements was the first overt sign of Horus’ turn to Chaos, and the first battle of the Horus Heresy in the early 31st Millennium.

Why is it that these super religious people are less generous, more greedy and hate their neighbors more than normal people?

It occurred to me today that as much as the right wing christians tell people that they should be totally independent, and take no responsibility for the environment nor the welfare of their country nor its people, on the other hand they insist that people be 100% dependent, infantilized in fact, depending on a fictional God to take care of one’s every need.

So people are to be responsible for nothing and no one, and God is ordered to be responsible for everyone and everything… What a paradox. How would they know if God told them to fuck off and take care of their responsibilities themselves?

I don’t really hate Tebow but I do hate being told I have to like him because he’s a Christian and a good guy. If Tebow had the same character but was a Dawkins style Atheist, would he get all the love he did? I think not. That’s not a slight on Tebow so much as it is on people who think good and Christian are inherently connected. There are indeed good Christians but there are also good Atheists, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, etc and bad of each too. Plus I have to admit I have a huge problem with Tebow’s father speaking so ignorantly of the Philippines as he did in the SI article I read when TT was still at UF claiming that most of the people of that nation don’t know Jesus Christ. I took that as a very anti Catholic statement considering that most of that nation is Catholic.

This also comes from a society in which people who are highly prude and sexually repressed (or have a minimal to nonexistent sex drive) are seen as more moral than people who are not.

And a society in which people with money are better at cover up their sexual quirks and transgressions better than lower classes.

They can afford to travel more than 100 miles from home in order to misbehave… they can also buy off their pregnant mistresses/girlfriends with gifts and settlement packages, or send their pregnant daughters away to visit an auntie in another state until things blow over.

A bit OT, but this is a problem I have with “hate crime” legislation…motivation plays a role in sentencing, but if, for example a gang member kills another gang member, and one of them is black and the other is white, is it racial violence, gang violence, or just a drug deal gone wrong?

A bit OT, but this is a problem I have with “hate crime” legislation…motivation plays a role in sentencing, but if, for example a gang member kills another gang member, and one of them is black and the other is white, is it racial violence, gang violence, or just a drug deal gone wrong?

Why is it that these super religious people are less generous, more greedy and hate their neighbors more than normal people?

Well, not all super religious people are that way. But for these people their religion is just an excuse. They pretty much started off less generous, more greedy and hating their neighbors more. They also know that attitude is frowned upon. But by tying their weaknesses to God (Allah to Zeus, take your pick) they now have an excuse to act the way they do.

Actually any ideology will fill this need. Capitalism, Communism, The Second Amendment, etc. ad nauseum, will do.

I only just now listened to the white haired oracle. I am not surprised but I have to make the obvious observation that he equates “spanking” kids with mass murder and destruction (by a loving god).

There was a smiling woman in Florida the last day or two who barely survived an airplane crashing into and destroying her home. She was so happy to to explain, in front of her destroyed home, that this was a proof of God’s existens. Not once did she mention that her god killed the three people in that plane in order to bring her the message.

Sick.

Fischer and others who believe that God talks to them by killing other people and their children are demon worshippers.

A mother of three who became a voice of the gun-rights movement when she openly carried a loaded pistol to her daughter’s soccer game was fatally shot along with her husband, a parole officer and former prison guard, in an apparent murder-suicide at their home.

I knew a classless piece of trash at OU who bragged about being a descendant of Brahmins, and having left India because his family didn’t want to pay to help in abolishing the Caste System. Was also a BJP and Republican Party supporter.

Would come to the Alpha Phi Omega Meetings drunk off his ass. Also, claimed to be some big thug, even though he came from Farmington Hills, Michigan. I am likely more hardcore than him.

I love linux…the mousepad on my HP Mini was only left-clicking, so I did some googlin’,,,a couple of ‘synclient’ commands later I’ve got two finger scroll, horizontal scroll, and two finger right-click.

It’s snowing in Jerusalem, but in Chicago the skies are bone dry. #%*& jetstream.

Apparently China is getting a brutal winter.

Call me a pathetic romantic, but one thing (one of the lesser things) I worry about is the end of snow in NYC. There’s nothing more wonderful than walking through Central Park or Prospect Park after a good 6 inches has fallen.

So far this year, zilch has collected since the post-election day snow. It’s in the 40s here, at the time of year that’s supposed to be the coldest.

Slavery was a later Puritan import. It is my understanding that the Mayflower didn’t carry any slaves.

Then we may just have a misunderstanding of language. I was under the impression that “the Pilgrims” as a label emanates from the “Pilgrim Fathers” of Plymouth Colony, not from the Mayflower specifically.

Call me a pathetic romantic, but one thing (one of the lesser things) I worry about is the end of snow in NYC. There’s nothing more wonderful than walking through Central Park or Prospect Park after a good 6 inches has fallen.

So far this year, zilch has collected since the post-election day snow. It’s in the 40s here, at the time of year that’s supposed to be the coldest.

Summary of the DERPs in that article: The woman was a slut and anyway it’s all China’s fault for getting Indian’s to eat Chow Mein noodles!

/spits

I see the latest development over there is that the defense lawyers (or one of them, anyway) are trying to get the case thrown out on the grounds that their clients were tortured into making confessions.

Then we may just have a misunderstanding of language. I was under the impression that “the Pilgrims” as a label emanates from the “Pilgrim Fathers” of Plymouth Colony, not from the Mayflower specifically.

Only if there was a “good person” with a gun around to protect her…..this would have never happened.

It’s anecdotal, but one would think that there could be some correlation between gun deaths and gun culture (and by gun culture I mean people who are so gun centric as to carry them to soccer games as a badge of honor or buy assault rifles because they really love the power)…but that’s all just speculation.

Being as despise the PRC, can’t really get upset with them bashing China.

It’s OK to bash the Chinese government, but not to bash Chinese culture and food in general. The former is justified, the latter is a mark of bigotry. It’s stupid too, because it insults democracy activists and dissidents in the same way and the CCP. So what words like that end up doing is earning scorn and mockery in the West, and fueling nationalist anger in China.

It’s anecdotal, but one would think that there could be some correlation between gun deaths and gun culture (and by gun culture I mean people who are so gun centric as to carry them to soccer games as a badge of honor or buy assault rifles because they really love the power)…but that’s all just speculation.

If only there was some kind of statistic that showed that people who live in a country with such a culture are far more likely to die violently than people in other countries.

I love linux…the mousepad on my HP Mini was only left-clicking, so I did some googlin’,,,a couple of ‘synclient’ commands later I’ve got two finger scroll, horizontal scroll, and two finger right-click.

That’s better than me. After updating to 12.10, my trackpad basically no longer works & a USB mouse gives the same errors. I went into the bios and enabled the PS/2 port on this antique and an old Gateway mouse (with holstien colored box on it ;) functions correctly. There is, of course, nothing about this that I can find.

Screw you, jock-boy Yeager, screw you with a red-hot poker. A real killer needs to be cool; believe me, I know. You bellicose jock boys are looking for a fight in a bar (preferably one you know will not tolerate fighting, therefore leaving you safe from the consequences of your posturing). War is something different entirely. Yes, I know Yeager is a vet but he is playing to an audience of psycho-sexual head cases.

See, I get a bit of joy out of bringing up the fact that China has been occupied, or been someone’s tributary state more often than Poland. I despise Sino-Centrism, as it has no merit.

Try not to take pleasure in the problems of others like that. It causes the anger you feel to linger in your mind and being angry all the time isn’t good for you. Getting past that kind of cheap anger takes time, but I’ve found its well worth doing and something you need to do to interact successfully with others.

The insistence that the Southern Democrats of the 1950s are somehow the same as the contemporary national Democratic party is highly annoying in its own right, but it also illustrates the inability on the part of some conservatives to understand that things (people, ideas, movements) change and evolve over time.

This lack of awareness is obviously also reflected in attitudes towards scientific advance, changes in social norms and so on.

The weird thing is that the original article is from the AP and The Blaze didn’t load it down with DERP, for a rarity. So Glen Beck’s site essentially noted the matter in passing in a reasonable way and still a wingnut freaks out. I don’t get it, its just too insane.

Sunny in Philadelphia, still a sinus mess in my head. Ready to install an aquarium pump there to see if that would help. (refer: recent xkcd cartoon)

Need moar coffee.

On a positive front the posted bacon-wrapped meatloaf from last night came out quite well. Sufficient leftovers for a few more meals and making sandwiches. :)

I made some bisquick biscuits (takes all of 15 minutes) a few weeks ago and used the leftover meatloaf to make little sliders. They were tasty, though one of my dogs, Fozzie, thought I didn’t need that many and finished the meatloaf while I was enjoying my first slider in another room…and half the biscuits.

I made some bisquick biscuits (takes all of 15 minutes) a few weeks ago and used the leftover meatloaf to make little sliders. They were tasty, though one of my dogs, Fozzie, thought I didn’t need that many and finished the meatloaf while I was enjoying my first slider in another room…and half the biscuits.

One of my cats had a thing for biscuits. Was brazen enough to once walk across my lap while sitting on the sofa in order to steal one off a plate. The biscuits were the small-ish Pop-n-Fresh ones where the dough came out of a cardboard tube. I used to make those using the toaster oven for snacking purposes. (I keep meatloaf away from the cats since I use a lot of onion and garlic in it.)

One of my cats had a thing for biscuits. Was brazen enough to once walk across my lap while sitting on the sofa in order to steal one off a plate. The biscuits were the small-ish Pop-n-Fresh ones where the dough came out of a cardboard tube. I used to make those using the toaster oven for snacking purposes. (I keep meatloaf away from the cats since I use a lot of onion and garlic in it.)

It’s positively Spring-like here on LI. Nearly 50 degrees in the dead of January. More than a little concerning.

I’m noticing a shit-ton of ‘Obama as Hitler’ pics on Facebook this morning. Gun nuts have gone wall to wall Godwin, like a little mob of Alex Jonses…

They really have zero idea how unhinged they look. Any moderates logging onto FB this morning must be appalled.

I hope everyone’s morning is going well.

I am seeing that on Twitter along with the usual shit ton of bogus quotes and Bizarro alternative-universe history, and the massive projection (“liberals” don’t know history, “liberals” don’t pay attention to facts, etc.).

Sort of. There’s a no-kill shelter in Philly that does adoptions. So I need to print out an application and then go down there on a weekend. Probably this one or next. Also taking advantage of the lull to sort out a few closets and take some cat-proofing measures under the assumption that new overlords will be more agile and inquisitive than the previous residents who were somewhat less spry due to age.

Sort of. There’s a no-kill shelter in Philly that does adoptions. So I need to print out an application and then go down there on a weekend. Probably this one or next. Also taking advantage of the lull to sort out a few closets and take some cat-proofing measures under the assumption that new overlords will be more agile and inquisitive than the previous residents who were somewhat less spry due to age.

True, though of course the degree of desire to explore does also depend on the temperament of the individual cat.

A dozen killer whales that were trapped in the ice in northern Quebec are now free.

Animal lovers around the world had been worrying about the fate of the orcas, trapped 30 kilometres off the coast of the Inuit village of Inukjuak, on the eastern shore of the Hudson Bay.

The community was planning this morning to send a team in a risky operation to widen the hole but instead found that the ice had broken loose and the orcas gone, said local resident Peter Qumaluk.
[Link: www.theglobeandmail.com…]

True, though of course the degree of desire to explore does also depend on the temperament of the individual cat.

I’d expect any cat limited to a 2-bedroom apartment to eventually desire to worm into the one walk-in closet simply to see what is there. And one with any jumping ability will get over the initial wall of boxes that was keeping the previous denizens out. (Though when I initially moved in here the two siamese were all over that closet - some of my suit coats still have extra fur from where one of them found a nice hidey-hole to snooze in. 3’ off the floor on top of a few packing boxes to lie on an unused cushion with two suit coats on either side for additional warmth and security. Reached after running a maze of other boxes and items that were usually not that stable of a structure.)

A smart but somewhat unsophisticated West Texas boy had won a scholarship to Harvard. Like most freshmen, he was completely lost his first day on campus. He spotted 2 upper classmen (recognizable by their sweaters) and flagged them down to ask directions. “Excuse me, fellers, can y’all tell me where the library is at?”
One of the upper classmen peered at him disdainfully, “Of course, my good man, of course. But first, my good man, this is HARVARD and here at HARVARD we do not end a sentence with a preposition!”
The country boy thought for a second and said, “Okay, can you tell me where the library is at, ASSHOLE?”

Advocates are concerned about Brennan’s distressing record on civil liberties from his long career in intelligence under both the Bush and Obama administrations. CAIR, the country’s most prominent Muslim civil society group, and the ACLU, the civil liberties organization, have both already expressed concern about Brennan’s nomination.

But today, two liberal groups are turning up the pressure by mobilizing their members against the nominee. Calling Brennan the “assassination czar” of the Obama administration, CREDO, the increasingly active grassroots mobilizing group fueled by its cell phone business, and Demand Progress, a million-plus member civil rights organization, will begin mobilizing their members later this morning to urge the Senate to reject Brennan’s confirmation as CIA director.

I’m a little surprised reaction has been so subdued. I don’t think this is going to catch on.

One day there were three Egyptians—one from Cairo, one from Alexandria and one fellah—traveling together through the Sahara. They somehow lost their way and found themselves stranded in the middle of the desert with no food or water and sat down waiting to die. Suddenly, the guy from Cairo felt something under him in the sand and began digging to see what it was. Lo and behold it was a lamp! He remembered the story of Aladdin and his magic lamp, so he figured he would try rubbing it to see if a jinni came out. As the others watched he rubbed and rubbed and, sure enough, a huge jinni came out! As is their habit, the jinni said to them, “Salaam. You have freed me and now I am obliged to grant three wishes to you, name what you want.”

The men began discussing what they should do and decided that each one would use one of the wishes to get safely back to his hometown. The man from Cairo said, “Okay jinni, I am ready. I wish to be back in Cairo with my family on a lovely houseboat on the Nile river, with a table full of food & drink in front of me.” *POOF!* The jinni snapped his fingers and the first man was back in Cairo on the houseboat. Now it was the turn of the guy from Alexandria. He said, “Okay jinni, I wish to be in a nice beachfront cabaret in Alexandria, where I can eat fresh fish, drink cool beverages and watch all of the beautiful girls pass by.” *POOF!* The jinni snapped his fingers and the second man was back in Alexandria by the seashore. Now the jinni turned to the fellah and said, “Okay, this is the last wish—what do you want?” And the fellah said to him, “Ya jinni, I am so lonely now—please bring my friends back!!!”

It’s winter, but it hardly feels like it in the NYC metro area. Or Chicago for that matter.

NYC metro may see temps bumping 60 degrees this weekend. We’ve been pushing 50 a few days this week.

December had a touch of snow. Precip is down.

Chicago is setting records for lack of snow.

And yet Fischer is derping on and on about how it’s winter elsewhere. It’s supposed to be winter in the Arctic. When it’s supposed to be cold in the usual places but isn’t, that’s a troubling development. When it’s warmer in places that are supposed to be warm (over a period of time like say years - not merely on a day to day basis), that too is a troubling development.

The extremes are getting more extreme, and yet it’s the anti-global warming nutters who think that anyone who thinks that climate change and global warming is bunk are taking all this on faith? Sorry, but the facts indicate that global warming is happening, to suggest otherwise is to engage in faith based belief, since there’s no fact on which that could be based.

Anecdotal evidence isn’t evidence. Global temps are up. That doesn’t mean that point X has to always be higher temp. Some places could see drops, but the entire planet’s temperature is rising. And we can measure this definitively.

Ahhh, yes, the effrontery of human subjects who dare to close doors in a misguided attempt to forbid their overlords from entering parts of their rightful domain.

Given the apartment design once they get into the main bedroom they cannot be kept out of the “closet” since it doesn’t have a separate door at this point.

Odd design in that the you go through the edge of the closet to reach the bathroom. Bathroom door opened out into the closet and the closet door opened in to the closet. And they conflicted. And to reach the linen drawers and shelves on the one side both doors had to be closed.

I found this highly annoying. So I pulled the pins and removed the door dividing the bedroom from the closet. Said door is back in one corner of the closet.

You boys are forgetting the true meaning of a second term. John McCain will get to ask John Kerry penetrating questions and raise “serious concern” about the guy he was begging to have nominated as SoS. And then there’s the Hagel hearings…those will be priceless! Looking forward to Republicans saying, “So you were a Democrat Sena—no? A Republican Senator? Why did I never meet you?”

If you can’t afford the tip (and assuming service was adequate), there’s no way you should be going out to eat.

It’s just an excuse for being a miserable tipper - and a cheap bastard at that. When we go out to eat, we figure on leaving the appropriate tip, regardless of where we are and what tax rates apply to our income. We can afford to eat out, so we can afford to tip.

Of course, this all assumes that the quip/tipping situation is legit to begin with.

You boys are forgetting the true meaning of a second term. John McCain will get to ask John Kerry penetrating questions and raise “serious concern” about the guy he was begging to have nominated as SoS. And then there’s the Hagel hearings…those will be priceless! Looking forward to Republicans saying, “So you were a Democrat Sena—no? A Republican Senator? Why did I never meet you?”

You boys are forgetting the true meaning of a second term. John McCain will get to ask John Kerry penetrating questions and raise “serious concern” about the guy he was begging to have nominated as SoS. And then there’s the Hagel hearings…those will be priceless! Looking forward to Republicans saying, “So you were a Democrat Sena—no? A Republican Senator? Why did I never meet you?”

It’ll be fun for the whole family.

McCain won’t “grill” either one of them and will vote for both

Cantor can bluster all he wants but has no vote

As stated, a few dems will ask “tough, concerned” questions but in the end will vote for

Russians tell of an instance where the Tsar issued an unpunctuated message concerning someone appealing for pardon from execution.

The note read: казнить нельзя помиловать

Problem being that the Tsar wanted a period after the second word, which would have had it read “Do not execute. Pardon”
Unfortunately, the local officials read it as if there was a period afer the first word, which makes it read “Execute. Do not pardon”

I assume that his crime involved entering a restaurant, eating, shooting and then leaving (without tipping because he had to reduce discretionary spending due to tax increases)…

The head of the CIA does do a large bit of internal policy setting as well as having a role in setting the culture.

Frum made a good point the other day that although these appointees don’t make policy but they can influence it. If the head of the CIA or Pentagon is asked to conduct a threat assessment or explore the feasibility of some sort of action they can influence the results by saying “this will never work”, “that isn’t a problem”, “it’s going to be too costly”, etc.

Frum made a good point the other day that although these appointees don’t make policy but they can influence it. If the head of the CIA or Pentagon is asked to conduct a threat assessment or explore the feasibility of some sort of action they can influence the results by saying “this will never work”, “that isn’t a problem”, “it’s going to be too costly”, etc.

Exactly. Personnel decisions are policy themselves, for exactly that reason.

Of course, this all assumes that the quip/tipping situation is legit to begin with.

Exactly. And which Obama-driven taxes is he citing here? The income tax over $400/450K? Should still be able to tip. The 2% payroll tax increase? That was never meant to be permanent and why is Obama solely to blame. I see no scenario that would cause someone who usually tips, to stop due to the increase in taxes.

Except in the unusual cases when the executive decisionmaker is an interested expert, policy is actually formulated pretty far down in the staffs, and bubbles (painfully) up for consideration and approval. That’s why there are staffs.

Russians tell of an instance where the Tsar issued an unpunctuated message concerning someone appealing for pardon from execution.

The note read: казнить нельзя помиловать

Problem being that the Tsar wanted a period after the second word, which would have had it read “Do not execute. Pardon”
Unfortunately, the local officials read it as if there was a period afer the first word, which makes it read “Execute. Do not pardon”

I assume that his crime involved entering a restaurant, eating, shooting and then leaving (without tipping because he had to reduce discretionary spending due to tax increases)…

If Lake Michigan’s water level drops by just 15 centimetres, it will be lower than the Chicago River.

That could reverse the water flow, sending untreated sewage into Lake Michigan.
…
“This is an open sewer. It depends upon gravity to go away from us. If that gravity does not work with [Lake Michigan water levels] going down, it goes the other way, and we have done nothing to deal with contaminants.”

Chicago gets its drinking water from Lake Michigan, and the Army Corps of Engineers is keeping an eye on the water levels.

Years ago I was in Chicago on St. Patrick’s day. I heard they turn the Chicago River Green on that day, so I went to look. Yup, it was green. Turns out they were holding the festivities the following day, and I went again, and it was a much brighter shade of green. They do a huge parade for St. Pat’s day, it was quite festive. Also got to see a guy pee on the sidewalk and get arrested. They really know how to party in Chicago.

Years ago I was in Chicago on St. Patrick’s day. I heard they turn the Chicago River Green on that day, so I went to look. Yup, it was green. Turns out they were holding the festivities the following day, and I went again, and it was a much brighter shade of green. They do a huge parade for St. Pat’s day, it was quite festive. Also got to see a guy pee on the sidewalk and get arrested. They really know how to party in Chicago.

The good news is that the water quality in the Chicago River is far better than it once was. People even kayak on it in the summer.

A Brazilian cartoonist hit back at the Simon Wiesenthal Center for his inclusion on its top 10 slur list.

Carlos Latuff recently published a cartoon of the center’s founder, Rabbi Marvin Hier, awarding Latuff a medal in response to the center’s publication in December of a list of the top 10 anti-Israel and anti-Semitic slurs of 2012. Third on the list was Latuff’s caricature of Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu squeezing votes out of the body of a dead Arab child.

In the cartoon, an aggravated Hier presents a beaming Latuff with a medal that says “3rd” as Latuff sits on a chair drawing an airplane indiscriminately bombing Gaza. Hanging above Hier’s right ear are two lightning bolts.

Petra Marquardt-Bigman, a historian and blogger for The Jerusalem Post, noted that the bolts are the symbol of the SS – an elite Nazi unit.

Latuff said the two flat S letters are a “cartoon representation of headache.”

I think it’s a worthwhile mental exercise to imagine different forms of social and/or sexual relations, to see if they cause harm or not (and to whom), since ostensibly the point of forbidding certain forms of relationship is to prevent harm from occurring, be it to underage children or non-union workers in “right-to-work” states.

Legalizing gay relationships obviously requires a change in societal attitude towards such relationships, which can only come about if individuals examine their beliefs concerning them. It used to be the case that many people believed that gay relationships caused harm to the people in them (and in fact that gayness was a form of mental illness requiring treatment).

NRO latched onto a Guardian article positing that “opinion” on pedophilia is changing, when in reality it’s a tiny minority of researchers who are positing that pedophilia should be classified as a sexual orientation rather than a mental illness for the purpose of saying that’s incurable and medical efforts to prove otherwise are actually counterproductive.

Predictably, the screeching is now that “The Left” is trying to “normalize” pedophilia.

Well, not all super religious people are that way. But for these people their religion is just an excuse. They pretty much started off less generous, more greedy and hating their neighbors more. They also know that attitude is frowned upon. But by tying their weaknesses to God (Allah to Zeus, take your pick) they now have an excuse to act the way they do.

Actually any ideology will fill this need. Capitalism, Communism, The Second Amendment, etc. ad nauseum, will do.

I’m sorry but about 1/4 of the country is BOTH super religious AND bigoted granny starvers. If there was no correlation between the two, then MOST of the population would have to be bigoted granny starvers. Since there isn’t the there must be a greater joint probability. Look, in SOME WAY being ultra-religious in the United States is correlated with not giving the slightest fuck about other people.

I’m sorry but about 1/4 of the country is BOTH super religious AND bigoted granny starvers. If there was no correlation between the two, then MOST of the population would have to be bigoted granny starvers. Since there isn’t the there must be a greater joint probability. Look, in SOME WAY being ultra-religious in the United States is correlated with not giving the slightest fuck about other people.

You should just be quiet, accept the charity we give you, and quit trying to deny that you are exactly like the immoral atheistic commie with no sense of decency or intelligence that we project you to be.

“…it’s worth taking a few moments to really contemplate what Sen. Boots’ is both claiming and proposing. First, he knows better than the United States Supreme Court what is and is not constitutional. And he knows that the rights of Indiana have been “illegitimately violated by the federal government” (notwithstanding that some of us might disagree). And he believes that “Somebody at some point has to take a stand. We have to stand up for what the Constitution says and right now, no one is doing that.” That’s right. The Supreme Court doesn’t know what the Constitution does and doesn’t permit and, apparently, doesn’t have the right to decide what the Constitution does and doesn’t permit. On the other hand, a state senator from Crawfordsville, Indiana, does have the right to make those sorts of determinations. And if those big, bad evil legislators in Congress, elected by the people, vote to do something and the Supreme Court rules that something to be Constitutional, well never-you-mind, because good ol’ Sen. Boots and the State of Indiana can just tell ’em they’re wrong! You know, just like the South did when they wanted to preserve the right to own humans.

And this is the type of person being elected to Indiana’s legislature.”

Has there ever been a single society in the history of the world that has condoned sexual acts with children?

And if so, WHY??!?!?!

There are some that still do. I remember a south american tribe where the age of consent is 8, an african one where girls start having sex at 6, boys at 8.

Sexual morality is arbitrary, and it’s the attitudes around sex that make it exploitive or not - and well the mechanics of it too (little kids could be physically hurt by rape by a full grown man - societies with very low ages of consent would have practices to avoid that).

But my main thought is that societies where women lose all their rights when they get married and don’t have the rights to divorce or remarriage make marriage itself a form of exploitation, all the more horrible when it is forced on or even allowed for someone very young. And even the west has a history of abusing women and girls that way.

There are some that still do. I remember a south american tribe where the age of consent is 8, an african one where girls start having sex at 6, boys at 8.

Sexual morality is arbitrary, and it’s the attitudes around sex that make it exploitive or not - and well the mechanics of it too (little kids could be physically hurt by rape by a full grown man - societies with very low ages of consent would have practices to avoid that).

But my main thought is that societies where women lose all their rights when they get married and don’t have the rights to divorce or remarriage make marriage itself a form of exploitation, all the more horrible when it is forced on or even allowed for someone very young. And even the west has a history of abusing women and girls that way.

Well, you have to consider that in a lot of cultures a marriage is simply a contracted property transfer. Between the father and the husband.

Well, you have to consider that in a lot of cultures a marriage is simply a contracted property transfer. Between the father and the husband.

I explain that to my 14-year-old daughter. Namely that not that long ago, she would be at the age when we would be looking around for a suitable husband for her, preferably one whose parents had some spare grazing land available for one of our cows, which she would take with her as a dowry…

I explain that to my 14-year-old daughter. Namely that not that long ago, she would be at the age when we would be looking around for a suitable husband for her, preferably one whose parents had some spare grazing land available for one of our cows, which she would take with her as a dowry…

If I had arranged my daughter’s marriages, one would be much happier and one would not.

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